CaspersCruiser wrote:OK, my understanding of what air helper springs do is flawed.
I have a variable drop/rise ball mount:
https://www.etrailer.com/search/180+Hitch
Does this not accomplish the same leveling task?
CaspersCruiser wrote:OK, my understanding of what air helper springs do is flawed.
I have a variable drop/rise ball mount:
https://www.etrailer.com/search/180+Hitch
Does this not accomplish the same leveling task?
scross wrote:Interesting video.
I’m not surprised a company that makes and sells weight distribution hitches would present information that greatly favors weight distribution hitches over the use of air bags. That said, I agree that weight distribution hitches are a better solution - if you have a steel trailer where weight distribution hitches can be used without damaging the trailers frame...
I would have preferred that the video did not use an example where the tongue weight was a absurd 20.9% of the total trailer weight. No one should tow a tandem axle trailer loaded like that! I wonder what the results of the demonstration would have been if the tongue weight of the trailer would have been a more realistic 383 pounds - which is 8% of the total trailer’s 4,785 total weight?...
... And why are they focusing solely on the weight of the front and rear truck axles and completely ignoring the distribution of weight on the front and rear trailer axles?...
...move most of the weight off the rear axle and onto to the front axle as shown in the video doesn’t really help IMO. I want some of that tongue weight to rest on my rear axle to better balance the load between the trucks two axles.
The benefit of the WD hitch is also dependent on the geometry of the trailer. In the video they used a really short trailer with the load well forward which exagerates the effect of the WD hitch. The longer the span between hitch and the front trailer axle, the less benefit there is to the WD hitch. Such as with a boat trailer. Also the better balanced the trailer load is relative to the axles, the less benefit there is to the WD hitch.
snydzy wrote:The benefit of the WD hitch is also dependent on the geometry of the trailer. In the video they used a really short trailer with the load well forward which exagerates the effect of the WD hitch. The longer the span between hitch and the front trailer axle, the less benefit there is to the WD hitch. Such as with a boat trailer. Also the better balanced the trailer load is relative to the axles, the less benefit there is to the WD hitch.
This is an interesting statement...please explain how. A load is a load...the geometry exists with the WD hitch, I can’t see the trailer span has anything to do with it. Doesn’t a class V hitch use the same weight distribution geometry in its design vs. class IV hitches...?
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